Recorded & mixed by Shane Olivo at Bobby Peru's House of History, Milwaukee, September 2000
Executive Producer: Jean P. Beaumont
E. B.: Vocals, guitar, electric piano, accordion, Senegalese hand drum, talking drum, tambourines
Dawn Mahuta: Vocal
Tom Noble: Vocals
Tom Landre: Accordion
Andy Mayeshiba: Trumpet
Paul Atwater: Baritone saxophone
Mary Halter: Harp
Andy Noble: Bass, vocal
Rob McCuen: Drumkit, tambourines

Eric Beaumont And His Mouse Orchestra - My Father's Story

The Apprentice

Easy Live Long (E. Beaumont) (blues stroll version)

You’ve known fear, Easy Rawlins
Born so near to New Orleans,
Hiding in the shadow and shade
Trying not to get dead,
but I think you’ve got it made
You’re never afraid of yourself

Running from the police
Staring down the pink man’s piece
You lost many loves but at least
you never lost sight of yourself

Easy, be strong
Easy, right the wrong

When you’ve gone gray, Easy Porterhouse,
remember your main man Mouse
and all of the people you saved
from prejudice’s premature grave
On history books a new page
for the man unafraid

Drumkit, vocals: Tito Cruz
Bass, vocals: Michael Bell
Guitars, vocals: E.B.
Vocals: Kim Coats
Vocals: Nate Vest

Kim Coats and the Welders-Easy Live Long

Summer Sound (pop version) (E. Beaumont/N. Vest/J. Figueroa)

2215 hour, middle of June
Dog bark in yard, your servant sleep soon
You gave us this day, can’t take it away, can’t take it away

Come gather the youths around the block
playing football and foos, the sun is sinking
Get into the house, it’s 5:00
Breadfruit and bag juice for eat and drinking

I’m eating alone, watching the sky
No telephone, just the summer sun and I

Supper is over, splashing, scraping
The youths getting older, voices changing
Dominoes crack, locusts kissing
Croakers they clack, handmowers hissing

Cabinets thunder miles away
They’re wooden – I wonder why summer must go ‘way

Let us pray
and give thanks for every day
Keep a summer song in your heart
and replay September through May

A whispering breeze
The rustle of leaves,
Transistors playing
The splash of night rain

Eric Blowtorch-Summer Sound (demo)

Live at the Beat Kitchen, Chicago, ca. 1995

Eric Blowtorch & Revelation Rockers-How To Break A Blockade

Dear Jazz (E. Beaumont)

Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, man makes do with what little he has
Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, so give me that bucket and that bugle of brass
Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, you can’t control the kids, not with your razzmatazz
Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, but maybe gave ‘em just a clue about class

What took you so long?  Now where have you gone?
Now I know what it means to miss New Orleans

Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, you gave the 20th century glory ‘midst the gory
Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, but you couldn’t stop my soaring heart from being sorry
Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, you made us jitter and jive; they said you was bad
Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, you got a heart beneath the glitter?  Help the bitter and mad

What took you so long?  Now where have you gone?
Now I know what it means to miss New Orleans

Your creator was a gator and your daddy was a pimp
Your mama was a G_d-fearing, good-timing gimp
I can’t stop loving every dusty, nasty note
from the highest to the lowest register you got my vote

Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, thank you for Dipper, Diz, Dakota, and D-Jean Got
Dear Jazz, Dear Jazz, where did you, where did you, where did your song go?

Eric Blowtorch and the Welders-Dear Jazz

Remembrance of the man called Joe Strummer

Eric Blowtorch & Cecilio Negron, Jr.-Christmas In Ladbroke Grove

Two titans' vocal cuts of the Clash's "Straight to Hell," chopped and screwed by the great Shane Olivo

Horace Andy & Big Youth-Asylum Seeker

Jah Youth's voicing of Horace Andy's version of the Clash's "Straight to Hell"

Big Youth Backed by Welders-Pair Of Dice

Horace Andy sings the Clash's "Straight to Hell"
photo by Véronique Skelsey

Horace Andy Backed by Welders-Straight To Hell

For the great Milwaukee artist Della Wells
https://www.facebook.com/della.wells.7

The Illuminator

Char: vocals, tambourine
Eric Blowtorch: vocals, guitar, tambourine
Dan Flynn: guitar
Terry Hackbarth: bass
Cecilio Negron, Jr.: congas
Rob McCuen: drumkit
Didier Leplae: guitar, engineering

Char & Eric-Seeing You This Way

I do not own the rights to this song.  I added two guitar tracks, hoping Mary Mary and their fans like it.

Mary Mary - In The Morning (Eric Blowtorch Guitar Mix)

What does a brother have to do
to reap respect already due,
to stop the spiteful spew,
to not be turned into glue?

Jacob Blake is looking at the lake,
feeling the seven-year ache, hoping the treatments take,
chained and inanimate, reputation at stake
When he fell it made the earth quake – grateful to be awake

How many cheeks must a mother turn
before the right to live she can earn
from lemmings loath to learn
How many bodies must burn?

Breonna Taylor was a healer, but the jailer
just had to hail her, just had to invade her
Every, every day here to the cross we nail her
The great experiment is a failure

How innocent do we have to be
for one stoneslinger to see
hydrogen humanity
in the American cemetery?

Eric Blowtorch-Too Many Dues (dirge)

Eric Blowtorch-Too Many Dues (c&w)

written by Eric Beaumont & Andy Noble
edited by Harriet McKinney
Harriet McKinney: vocal
Shahanna McKinney: vocal
Matt Norberg: vocal
Eric Blowtorch: guitar
Robin Pluer: accordion
Liz Ramirez: clarinet
Glenn Asch: violin
Engineered by Shane Olivo at Bobby Peru Recording

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